Seventy-five years after the United States destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, killing 70,000 people in an instant and that many more in the months to follow, OREPA members gathered at the gates of the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Complex to echo the call…
Our peace lantern ceremony was intentionally small to minimize the risk of COVID-19 which has been persistently spreading in Knoxville. But we did feel it was important to bear witness, so thirteen masked people created a wide circle at Sequoyah…
Just over eight months ago, federal judge Pamela Reeve stripped the National Nuclear Security Administration of its legal authority to build the Uranium Processing Facility bomb plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The UPF is an integral part of NNSA's…
OREPA Files request for public hearing/extension of comment period for Oak Ridge earthquake document
The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance today filed a formal request with the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration seeking an indefinite
New earthquake report shows risks “ten times as high”
The third time is proving far from charming for the government’s plan to continue making nuclear bomb parts in Oak Ridge. The National Nuclear Security
Stop the New Nuclear Arms Race — cancelled.
The coronavirus and uncertainty about the future have forced cancellation of the Stop the New Nuclear Arms Race conference scheduled for late May in Maryville,
Peacemaker Award 2020
Can you think of a better way to spend the extra evening we get in Leap Year? OREPA is pleased to honor Gloria Mencer with
OREPA asks judge to enforce her ruling
Citizen Groups File Motion to Enforce Court Order Vacating NNSA Decision on Uranium Processing Facility Construction Calling the National Nuclear Security Administration’s latest Record
Judge rules for OREPA, et al.
Chief District Judge Pamela Reeves today issued a ruling in OREPA’s legal challenge to the UPF bomb plant. While she stopped short of requiring the
Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Plant “unsafe”
Y-12 CRITICALITY SAFETY PROGRAM “INADEQUATE” SAFETY BOARD CITES SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS One of the nation’s key nuclear weapons production facilities has been declared unsafe due
2019 Peacemakers
OREPA Coordinator Ralph Hutchison read the following dedication at the presentation of the 2019 Peacemaker Award celebration. Long before the creation of the #MeToo movement,
Report from the front gate: 19 years of Sunday vigils at Y-12
Bill Clinton was impeached, and pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura became Governor of Minnesota. Michael Jordan retired from basketball, and the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined
WHAT ABOUT THE INF TREATY?
THE INF TREATY IN THE NEWS Why, suddenly, a shot-across-the-bow announcement from the President that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
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Sunday Vigil
The OREPA Board has now decided that we are prepared to do a limited re-opening of the Sunday vigil to allow for slightly more participation. We are asking anyone who wants to attend a Sunday vigil to sign up in advance—by the Thursday before. There are two ways to sign up. You can email Ralph at orep@earthlink.net or you can call him at 865 776 5050. If the five slots are already taken, we’ll ask you to wait until next week. All vigilers are expected to wear masks. Bring your own chair. Avoid physical contact and maintain an appropriate social distance in the circle of chairs. Of course, if for any reason you feel you may have been exposed to the virus or to someone with the virus, you should not attend the vigil. At this point, we are not resuming our monthly potlucks.
